English Explanatory Dictionary

between the devil and the deep blue sea

English dictionary entry

Meanings

prep_phrase
  1. Between undesirable alternatives.

Pronunciation

en-au-caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.ogg

Word forms

between the devil and the deep blue sea betwixt the devil and the deep blue sea the devil and the deep blue sea

Synonyms

between a rock and a hard place between Scylla and Charybdis between the devil and the deep blue sea between the hammer and the anvil between two fires damned if one does and damned if one doesn't doomed if you do doomed if you don't in a cleft stick in bad bread on the horns of a dilemma

Related words

devil to pay, and no pitch hot devil to pay the devil to pay and no pitch hot or ready devil seam between a rock and a hard place Hobson's choice lesser of two evils
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